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             North Korea Details Charges Against American Prisoner

   North Korea`s supreme court has detailed some of the charges against a
   Korean-American tour operator who was sentenced to 15 years of hard
   labor last month for plotting to overthrow the government.
   A court spokesman told the North`s official Korean Central News Agency
   on Thursday that Kenneth Bae was arrested in the city of Rason in
   November while in the possession of anti-Pyongyang literature.
   The spokesman said Bae was working through churches in the U.S. and
   South Korea to bring down the North Korean government. He was also
   accused of bringing more than 1,500 people from North Korea, China and
   other countries to what were called "plot-breeding" bases around China,
   and giving lectures opposing Pyongyang.
   The spokesman said that Bae had confessed to all the charges. He was
   convicted and sentenced in a closed-door trial that his attorney was
   not allowed to attend.
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